David Michael Gibbs

David married Rose-Marie Ada Margot [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Charlotte Lucy Gibbs was born on 29 Sep 1985; died on 15 Jan 1986.
2. Henry Arthur Gibbs

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• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 6; Relation to Head of House: Son

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2nd son. Baptised 28 May 1904 at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate. Educated at Eton College 1917-22. matric: at Oxford (University College, 17 October 1922); 2nd class Science (Physiology) and BA 1926; MA 1930; BM and B.Ch. 1930; Medical Student at Oxford 1922-7 and St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, 1927-30, DM 1932. Died at Ewhurst, Surrey, 14th June 1993 and buried at St. James' Abinger.

Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (England), Licentiate of Royal College of Physicians (London), Member of British Medical Association Jan 1930. Clinical Assistant St. Thomas' Hospital Feb-Aug 1930, Casualty and Outpatients' Officer to Evelina Hospital for Children, Southwark, August 1930-Feb 1931. House Physician Mar-Dec 1931, Obstetrical House Physician Mar-Sept 1932, at the Radcliffe Infirmary and County Hospital, Oxford.

Surgeon to Cobham Nursing Division St. John Ambulance 1937-50.

General Practitioner in Cobham, Surrey 1933-71. Lived at Broxmore, Cobham, Surrey 1933-38; at Leylands, Leigh Place, Cobham, 1938-71 and at Mercer's Cottage, The Common, Cranleigh, Surrey, 1971-1993

Birth:
20 Cleveland Gardens

Antony married Helen Margaret Leuchars on 21 Oct 1937 in Cobham, Surrey. Helen (daughter of William Wood Leuchars and Gwendoline Evelyn Fleming) was born on 2 Feb 1913 in Cobham, Surrey; died on 4 Nov 2013 in Reigate, Surrey; was buried on 18 Nov 2013 in St James, Abinger Common, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Departure: Yokohama, Aomori, Japan
• Arrival: 28 Feb 1936, London; Age: 23

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Only daughter of William Wood Leuchars and Gwendoline Evelyn Leuchars (nee Fleming) of Waystrode, The Ridgeway, Pyrford, Surrey. Formerly of Holmside, W. Byfleet and Cossins, Cobham. Born 2nd February 1913 at Elmhurst, Cobham, baptised March 1913 at St. Andrew's, Cobham. Educated at Farlington House, Haywards Heath.

Married 21st October 1937 at St. Andrew's, Cobham, Surrey.

Lived at Elmbridge, Cranleigh, 1993-1999, The Beaumont, Reigate, Surrey 1999-2013. Died at Reigate, Surrey, 4th November 2013, and buried at St. James' Abinger.


Birth:
Elmhurst

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• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 50; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

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1st son. Born at Collina (now the Vicarage), Torwood, Torquay, 27 October and baptised 7 December 1860 at St. Mark's, Torwood. Educated at Winchester College 1874-8, matric. at Oxford (Keble College), 28 January 1879; 1st class Science (biology) and BA 1882; MA 1925. Died 9 July 1949 and was buried at St. James' Abinger, Surrey. Will proved.

Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London 1882; in Liverpool with Antony Gibbs & Sons & Co., 1882-3; in Melbourne, Australia, with Gibbs Bright. & Co., 1885-9 (a manager there 1889); a partner in Gibbs & Co. Chile (Valparaiso and Iquique) 1890-6; a manager in the London firm 1896 and partner therein 1897 to 31 December 1930, when he retired. Director of the Mexican Railway Co. from 1905 and of the Indemnity Assurance Co. from 1906. Churchwarden of St. James', Abinger, of St. Martin Outwich, of St. Helen's, City of London, from 1920. On the council of Keble College, Oxford, from 1925. Author of 'The History of Antony & Dorothea Gibbs' and of the 'Early Years of Antony Gibbs & Sons', published 1922, and editor of the third edition of the family pedigree. Author of Abinger Parish Church published October 1938 (all his notes are available on-line at http://www.stjameschurchabinger.org/church-history.ashx and view 'Other Documents' on this page. His Chilean War Diaries are in the possession of Julian R. GIbbs

Residences: after marriage, 20 Cleveland Gardens, Paddington, 1902 - March 1931, and Goddards, Abinger, Surrey, leased from 1914, bought by his wife, 1927. Goddards was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1898-9 for Sir Frederick Mirrilees. The house was intended for Sir Frederick's daughter Cecilia (afterwards Mrs Craven) and until she needed it, it was used as a rest home for nurses.

St Cecilia's badge is carved outside the front entrance. After the house was enlarged in 1910 it was occupied for a short time by Sir Frederick's son, Donald Mirrilees and his wife. Mrs. Craven never lived there. It is a fine example of the relationship between house and garden which was of paramount importance to Lutyens (see Edwin Lutyens Architectural Monographs 6, Academy Editions, London, 1979). The garden was designed by Gertrude Jekyll and is mentioned in 'Gardens Old and New' edited by H. Avray Tipping, MA, FSA, Vol. III (pub. about 1912 by Country Life). Distinct reservations on its architectural merits are expressed by Pevsner in the vol. on Surrey in the 'Buildings of England' Series, pub. by Penguin Books, 1st edition 1962, 2nd edition. 1971, however it is the subject of one of the books in Brian Edwards' "Architecture in Detail" series (Goddards, Lutyens by Brian Edwards published by Phaidon Press Ltd 1996).

Birth:
Collina

John married Emily Gertrude Franck Bright on 14 Jan 1902 in Oxford, Oxfordshire. Emily (daughter of Rev. James Franck Bright and Emmeline Theresa Wickham) was born on 31 Aug 1868 in Preshute House, Marlborough College, Wiltshire; died on 27 Nov 1960 in Cobham, Surrey; was buried in Abinger, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, London; Age: 42; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: Oct 1960, Wootton Fairmile Lane, Colesham, Surrey

Notes:

Gertrude was John Arthur Gibbs's second cousin. 3rd daughter and co-heir of Rev. James Frank Brighton, DD, (died 1920), Master of University College, Oxford (nephew of Robert Bright, by Emmeline Theresa (died 1871), 1st daughter of Rev. Edmund Dawe Wickham, vicar of Holmwood, Surrey, by Theresa, daughter and heir of Archdale Palmer of Cheam Park, Surrey (see Wickham of Horsington in Burke's 'Landed Gentry' and 'Selborne' in his Peerage): born at Preshute House, Marlborough College, 31 August 1868 and baptised at Preshute House, Marlborough College, 31 August 1868. Married at St. Peter's-in-the-East, Oxford 14 January 1902. Died 27 November 1960 at Cobham, Surrey and was buried at St. James' Abinger 30 November 1960.

For her lineage see 'Bright of Colwall' in Burke's 'Landed Gentry'. The life of her father and that of her grandfather, Richard Bright, MD (died 1858) are in the Dictionary of National Biography.

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Married:
St. Peter's in the East

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• Residence: 1911, 'Elmhurst', Cobham, Surrey

William married Gwendoline Evelyn Fleming on 29 Sep 1906 in Cobham, Surrey. Gwendoline was born on 29 Sep 1886 in Hampstead, London. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 26 May 1832, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn, London
• Residence: 1851, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1891, Clyst St George, Devon
• Residence: 2 Apr 1911, Speen, Berkshire; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Head

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8th son of George Henry Gibbs of London. Baptised 26 May 1832 at St.-Giles-in-the-Fields, Holborn. Educated at Eton College 1834-35 and Charterhouse, London, 1846-7. Matric at Oxford (Exeter College), 24 Oct. 1849, BA, a 'grand compounder, MA, 1856. Buried 15 January 1914 at Speen. Will proved 17 February 1914.

To add to the facts about education, he went to a school at Brighton about six or seven, and then to one at Clifton, Bristol. After Charterhouse he was, 1848-9, with a tutor, the rector of Poundstock, Cornwall. Joined Antony Gibbs & Sons, London, 1854, but left them 1856 through ill-health, and in every year 1851 to 58 he travelled much abroad, particularly in Spain, and (1857-8) up the Nile and in Palestine. A student at Wells Theological College 1858. Ordained Deacon (Exeter) 1859, Priest 1860. Curate at St. Mary's, Torwood, Torquay, to Rev. J. Hogg 1859-1860, when his health drove him abroad again (Pyrenees) with his wife and first-born. Living at Bradeham, Bucks., 1863-4. Perpetual Curate of Clifton Hampden, Oxon., 1864 (presented by his brother Henry Hucks Gibbs), but resigned work in 1874 from the same cause as before. His parsonage there was what is now the Manor House. Resided at Oaklands, Cleveland, Somerset, 1874-8. Vicar of Exwick, Devon, 1878-85; Rector of Clyst St. George, Devon 1885-97 (presented to both by Antony Gibbs). Retired and resided at Speen House, Berks., 1898-1914. Editor of 'The Registers of Clyst St. George', published 1899 by The Parish Register Society. Member of the Athenauem Club, London, 1863-86. His diaries 1851-1912 (52 vols.), last in possession of John Arthur Gibbs in 1932 are now missing. The volume of his 'Reminiscences' (MS.) from c.1840 to 1910, now in the possession of Denis D. Gibbs.

Portraits: Oil 1858 by E.U. Eddis in possession of Lord Aldenham (1932); oil (c. 1902) by A. Macdonald, last in possession of Alexandra White (2021 - previously George Medley); a posthumous one painted 1921 (from a photo of about 1910) by Ronald Gray in possession of Denis D. Gibbs; a chalk drawing by E.U. Eddis (c. 1859) last in possession of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932; a pastel by E. Havell (1887) last in possession of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932.

Died:
Speen House

John married Isabel Marianne Bright on 3 Jan 1860 in Abbots Leigh, Somerset. Isabel (daughter of Robert Bright and Caroline Tyndall) was born on 1 Mar 1835 in Abbots Leigh, Somerset; died on 22 Mar 1920 in Newbury, Berkshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1851, Abbots Leigh, Somerset; Age: 16; Relation: Daughter
• Residence: 1871, Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire
• Residence: 1881, St Thomas the Apostle, Exeter, Devon
• Residence: 1891, Clyst St George, Devon
• Residence: 1901, Speen, Berkshire; Relation to Head: Wife

Notes:

2nd daughter of Robert Bright (died 1869) of Abbots Leigh, Somerset (partner of George Gibbs), for whose lineage see Bright of Colwall in Burke's 'Landed Gentry', by Caroline (died 1843); 4th and youngest daughter of Thomas Tyndall of The Royal Fort, Bristol. Baptised at Abbots Leigh 3 January 1860. Was buried at Speen House 24 March 1920. Administration May 1920.

Her Tyndall grandmother was Marianne (died 1805), daughter of Lambert Schimmelpennick of Bristol (of the family of the Dutch Counts of that name) and sister-in-law of Mary Anne Schimmelpennick, the authoress, whose life is in the Dictionary of National Biography. For the Tyndall family see articles by Greenfield in The Genealogist Magazine Vol II (1878). Her diaries 1851 to 1920 (53 volumes) were in possession of John Arthur Gibbs in 1932, now missing.

Portraits: Pastel by E. Havell (1887) last in possession of Christopher J. Gibbs; a chalk drawing by E.U. Eddis (c. 1859) last in possession of Francis L. Gibbs in 1932; a watercolour by Curnock, one of a set of three of herself, her sister Caroline (born 1827) and her sister Constance (born 1837), all in possession of George Medley 2014, but not mentioned in the 1932 edition of the Gibbs Pedigree. Sampler, dated Sept 26 1845 (then aged 10) in possession of Vera Medley.

Died:
Speen House

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• Christening: 14 Jul 1832, Saint James, Westminster, London
• Occupation: 1881-1906, University College, Oxford; Master of University College, Oxford

Notes:

James Franck Bright (29 May 1832 – 23 October 1920) was a British historian and Master of University College, Oxford.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Franck_Bright

James married Emmeline Theresa Wickham on 8 Aug 1864 in Holmwood, Surrey. Emmeline (daughter of Rev. Edmund Dawe Wickham and Emma Palmer) was born in 1837 in Godstone, Surrey; died in Aug 1871 in London; was buried on 10 Aug 1871 in Holmwood, St Mary, Surrey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Christening: 12 Nov 1837, Godstone, Surrey